Posted on 06/18/2002 8:28:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:29:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SACRAMENTO - Issuing a blistering indictment of the Davis administration, the lawmaker leading the investigation into the Oracle deal concluded his inquiry Monday and blamed the failed contract on officials who bowed to political pressure.
Florez, a Bakersfield Democrat who has presided over two months of hearings, recounted in extraordinary detail how a powerful lawmaker and advisers to Gov. Gray Davis pushed a controversial software contract that ``was at a standstill before Oracle began pulling strings.''
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